Updating your computer is almost complete you must restart

Windows tells you there are updates to be installed and you innocently say yes…

After some minutes you get the infamous message: It doesn’t matter if you press “Restart Later”, it will reappear in some minutes to check if you changed your mind…

This is also useful if you want to get rid of the shield icon which tells you there are updates to be installed…

If, for whatever reason (I don’t dare to ask), you want to re-start the Windows Update service in the current session, you can run “net start wuauserv“…

Tip: If you're feeling particularly brave, or have never had problems with Windows updates before, try installing updates together as a group, something that I've also had a lot of success with. NET updates of a particular version together, all of the operating system security updates together, etc.

You might not care for Windows updates, but they keep you protected, squash nasty bugs and generally keep the OS running as smoothly as possible.Then you get this lovely dialog: As if I needed another reason to hate dialog boxes. I want automatic updates, but I also want to restart my computer when I feel like it. If you click Restart Later, it pops up again ten minutes later, like clockwork.There are two settings and both will work, so it's your choice.Either enable No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations or set Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations to a long time interval, like 1440 minutes.

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Speaking of running smoothly, however, these updates don't always do that.